BEST MOVIES

Capuchin monkeys reject unequal pay

 

A Day in the Life of a Kiva Robot

 

100 Years of ships

 

S*** happens: The economics version

 

CEO Hans Wijers says goodbye to AkzoNobel

 

BEST ECONOMICS

Ah yes, about that euro-project…

http://andolfatto.blogspot.nl/2012/06/european-bond-yields.html

 

…and some historic background on currency union break-ups…

http://www.voxeu.org/article/eurozone-breakup-debate-uncertainty-still-reigns

 

…as well as some more historic background, but now on high debt levels…

 http://daalder.posterous.com/best-links-of-the-web-12-10-01-nr-628

 

The difference a US recession make…

http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/public-sector-jobs-begat-private-sector-ones-and-visa-versa/

 

Wage rigidity ultima forma

http://daalder.posterous.com/best-links-of-the-web-12-06-07-nr-561

 

Power in the world

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2012/06/daily-chart-19

 

The way Africa would look like to an economist..

http://daalder.posterous.com/best-links-of-the-web-12-12-04-nr-669

 

Structural changes in the energy dependency the next 25 years

http://daalder.posterous.com/best-links-of-the-web-12-11-13-nr-654

 

BEST HUMOR

Eurocrisis: denial is everything

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/06/21/the-euro-crisis-in-one-picture/

 

Damns given…

http://thisisindexed.com/2012/07/get-to-the-point/

 

Something will come out on the other end, eventually…

http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2012-11-13/portuguese-liquidity-trap-when-you-add-too-much-liquidity-fire-it-burns

 

Politicians and financial markets

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/03/viewing-stock-market/

 

Economists….

http://gregmankiw.blogspot.nl/2012/02/what-we-do.html

 

BEST PREDICTIONS

About that predictive power of financial markets…

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-12-12/fomc-preview-expiration-extension-and-evans-rule

 

About that predictive power of the IMF

 http://www.zerohedge.com/news/kkr-avoids-european-sovereigns-austerity-concerns

 

About that predictive power of analysts…

http://www.businessinsider.com/gerard-minack-forecasting-earnings-2012-12

 

…and that is not even half the story…

 http://www.zerohedge.com/news/morgan-stanley-quantifies-probability-global-muddle-through-37

 

BEST FINANCIAL MARKETS

That dreaded left tail in stock market returns…

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/mark-spitznagel-austrians-and-swan-birds-different-feather

 

Window dressing? Probably just coincidence, right?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324205404578147190736344284.html

 

Recent currency crisis in perspective

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/german-triple-c-issue-culture-clausewitz-and-clausius

 

Where did all the ???real??? volumes in equity markets go to??

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/11/27/charts-of-the-day-equity-volume-edition/

 

The dying triple A market…

 http://www.businessinsider.com/this-terrifying-chart-what-will-rising-health-care-costs-could-do-to-sovereign-ratings-2012-2

 

Still one of the best ways to show stock market returns through the years…

 http://daalder.posterous.com/best-links-of-the-web12-03-13-nr-508

 

Earnings and EPS dilution…

http://www.businessinsider.com/morgan-stanley-on-gdp-equity-returns-and-bill-gross-2012-8

 

BEST REST

How do you mean partisan vote…

http://today.yougov.com/news/2012/03/12/our-own-facts/

 

It is hard to call this humor, right?

http://andolfatto.blogspot.nl/2012/09/evil-is-root-of-all-money.html

 

Elections are tough going these days…

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-11-15/why-politicians-hate-austerity-one-simple-chart

 

Serious research…

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/09/05/study-countries-with-more-tipping-are-more-corrupt/

 

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